I actually saw this earlier this year on an airplane flight, but watched it with +Kay Hill this evening as part of Father/Daughter Movie Week. It's got some flaws (overly busy and often too impressed with the Sentinel-imposed body count), but there's some great heart to the film as well, mostly in the 1973 timeframe, as Xavier, Magneto, and Mystique all try to shape both themselves and the future. Fun times.
A ★★★½ review of X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
Just like the poster, XMDoFP gets a little too cluttered for its own good at times, chock-full of mutants, Sentinels, future mutants, past Sentinels, characters and threads and lots of shape-shifting fake-outs. Cutting back and forth from the early 70s to the dystopian future creates a bit of narrative whiplash at times, abetted by sometimes too-clever attempts at parallel imagery or contrasting themes. Personal character drama gets interspersed …
